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UK's Starmer takes aim at Nigel Farage as the Trump ally becomes a growing rival
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to workers during a visit to Glass Futures in Saint Helens, Merseyside, England, Thursday May 29, 2025. - photo by James Speakman/PA via AP
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer took aim at political rival Nigel Farage on Thursday, saying the hard-right politician would trash the U.K. economy through reckless spending. In a sign of how Britain’s two-party-dominated political system is changing, the prime minister devoted a speech at a glass factory in northwest England to attacking Farage, an ally of President Donald Trump whose Reform UK party holds just five of the 650 seats in the House of Commons. Starmer’s Labour Party, elected last year in a landslide, has 403 seats, and the center-right Conservatives 121.